George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.